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I am 66 years old, and yesterday was 06-06-06.  I guess I should have been worried yesterday, as I heard about 666 all day and evening on radio and TV.  "It's the DEVIL'S number," they said.

Meantime, 06-06-44 was D-Day.  That's 62 years ago.  That's a very famous day; a landmark date in World War II.  I believe I heard one person mention D-Day in passing yesterday.  How much more important some stupid superstition seems to be! 

At least, maybe now, we all know what the D in D-Day stands for------> DEVIL'S Day.  That's the day the devil in Berlin started his downward journey toward the place where the devil belongs.

vH

Older Than Dirt Quiz
Count all the ones that you remember- not the ones you were told about!
Ratings at the bottom.
1.   Blackjack chewing gum
2.   Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3.   Candy cigarettes
4.   Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5.   Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes
6.   Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7.   Party lines
8.   Newsreels before the movie
9.   P.F. Flyers
10.   Butch wax
11.   Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
12.   Peashooters
13.   Howdy Doody
14.   45 RPM records
15.   S&H Green Stamps
16.   Hi-fi's
17.   Metal ice trays with lever
18.   Mimeograph paper
19.   Blue flashbulbs
20.   Packards
21.   Roller skate keys
22.   Cork popguns
23.   Drive-ins
24.   Studebakers
25.   Wash tub wringers
26. The Fuller Brush man
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
28. Tinker toys
29. The Erector Set
30. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with a pink slab of bubblegum

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16 or more = You're older than dirt!
Don't forget to pass this along!!  Especially to all your really OLD friends.
 

Hey! I thought of a few more:
How about:
Coal stoves
Air mail
Bomb shelters under people's back yards
Steam engines on trains
The Pledge of Allegiance without "under God."
School cafeteria ladies wearing snoods
One phone company - Ma Bell
Stick shift with 3 on the column
Hand fans in church - advertising funeral homes
Cigarette ads on TV
A-bomb attack "Duck and Cover" drills in school
8-track tape cartridges
Blue laws
Wearing a coat and tie as an airline passenger
Mumblety-peg
Condoms behind the counter in the drug store so you had to ask for them
Street cars
Elevator operators in dept. stores who announced what was on each floor
Women wearing girdles
Men wearing sock garters

How Many Do You Remember??
Head-light dimmer switches on the floor
Ignition switches on the dashboard
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall
Real ice boxes [Ask your Mom about that]
Pants leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

I have a real ice box in my living room xyl wants a top on it to act as an island.

But do you remember life before the bands before they  were filled with slop buckets and idiots

I remember every one of those, plus--you guessed it--a few more.  Here we go.........

(1) The rag men:

    (a) The Italian guy, who had a horse-drawn wagon and sang opera so the housewives would know he was on his way down the street;

    (b) The Jewish guy, who had a horse-drawn wagon and yelled out RAAAAGs, RAAAAGs, so the housewives would know he was on his way down the street.  We kids would stand at the side of the curb and shout out, "What do you feed your wife?" to which he would reply, "RAAAGS....."  We thought that was hilariously funny.

    (c) The Black guy, who was too poor to afford a horse and wagon, and who just schlepped down the street with a push cart calling out "RAAAGS."  We didn't tease him.

(2)  Then, in Buffalo, there was the Lang's Bakery man, who had an enclosed horse-drawn cart.  He didn't call out anything because the housewives all knew when he was coming.

(3)  The coal delivery man, with his huge dump truck was fun too.  He would back that monster into our narrow city driveways, hook up the chutes (with their neat 90 degree turns), open the window to the cellar coal bin, and let the coal fly into the cellar.

(4)  And in the late summer the furnace cleaning guy would come around.  He had a humungous vacuum cleaner with a bag that lay on the ground that was over 20 feet long.  The cleaner was powered by a gasoline engine on the back of his truck.  A long hose reached from the truck, through the coal bin window to the furnace.

(5)  And I don't want to forget the scissors sharpening guy.  He came around with a push cart to which was attached a foot-pedal powered grinding wheel to sharpen all your knives and scissors.

Yes, I guess I am older than dirt.  Why, I can even remember:

(6)  feeding my first dipole with lamp cord!

vH

"Hand fans in church - advertising funeral homes"


 ;D ;D ;D

This is too funny!  Go into more detail, please.  Was this a local trend and where did the funeral directors give these fans out?

T

HOw about: 

"In Color"

The sharpening truck
Ice Cream Trucks
Glass of Coke for a nickle
Chewable wax flutes

Damnit Herb, I remember the rag men and a majority of the items on Jack's list as well.  ???

BTW, My dad was there 62 years ago, a 21 year old kid. Doesn't talk about it much.

How about:

-Shoe stores with fluorograph machines where you could see your foot bones inside your shoes

-Alarm clocks with radium hands

-DDT

-Hadacol - the patent drug advertised by Hank Williams - it was about 70% alcohol

-shaving with a single edged 'safety' razor

As you can see above, that was just the beginning of my post.  For some reason all that got posted was (1) The rag men...  The rest has all been added now above.
vH

Somehow it did not surprise me a bit that Vegas was
offering fantastic odds to anyone that wanted to
bet that yesterday (6/6/6) would be the end of
the world.

What probably WOULD surprise me is how many
idiots placed such a bet ............ like how would
they ever be able to collect?

As far as the great list of "older than dirt" items
so far .......... here a some more:

- Bicycle Clips
- Marbles
- Lunch Boxex (or Lunch Pails)

You need a promotional funeral home hand fan or one for the JJ studio??
"These hand fans are the traditional cardboard fans with a liquid laminated finish. These hand fans have been used in funeral homes and churches for generations to help keep cool in the summer months. These funeral fans were widely used before churches and funeral homes were air conditioned."
Go here:
http://www.extra-mile.com/cardboard/hand_fans.htm

You guys have gotten me primed now.  I forgot to mention that with all those horse-drawn wagons I talked about there were bound to be a lot of "horse apples" in the street.  My mother toldl me that my paternal grandmother (her mother-in-law) used to take a shovel and scoop up the droppings and dump them into a bushel basket.  From there they went on to the roses.  Apparently roses love horse apples  :D  :D  :D.

K2 Very Horsey

Lincoln logs
chemisery sets
drug store tube tester
doctors house calls
tv repairman tool caddy w/ 'seat'

Brill cream
 
High Karate
Vitalis

please
thank you
excuse me

 being in public w/o a shirt
or a hat for that mater ( JFK killed this one)

and they are mild.....   

My work telefone number 666-2484, and that is the number for a funeral home. And we still give out those fans Tom. mostly when we have a funeral out in the county, some of the old church houses do not have air cond, because of building being to old to cool/heat. And we still have folks that ask us for those old fans.  Matthew KR4WI

How about life before TV?

Listening to the radio to such things as:

The Lone Ranger
Jack Armstrong, The All American Boy
Buster Brown, Who Lives in a Shoe and his Dog Tye, Who Lives There Too
Fibber McGee and Molly
etc etc

I admit it, I'm older than dirt (and water too!)

73,  Jack, W9GT

Burma Shave signs

Girls under age 8 in public wearing no top

Kids bringing toy guns to school and playing with them during recess

Armed Forces Radio Service on shortwave

VOA broadcasts with call-letter ID's

Black and White tube type TV's

Soap operas on the radio

78 rpm records

"All purpose" record needles that would play 78's, 45's and 33 1/3's

Divided windshields

Yellow stop signs

Pay phones with phone books

Telephones with no dial  - "Number please"

Loran-A on 160m

only having to dial the last four if the first three were the same number ( up untill ?79?)
dialing a phone
phone booth
phone booth with door

WATS

Platformate

in living color

(friend who worked for the U.S. A ___ trying to call himself station to station around the world)

6 volt batts
( three on the tree )  see previous

 smells grand, packs tight                       (?)

Ok, this is interesting so I will add a few:
Bucky Beaver for Ipana Toothpaste, Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Pinky Lee , Soupy Sales, Captain Midnight, Oxydal laundry soap with blue magic whiteners, FAB laundry soap , Bluing for white clothes,Cow Brand baking soda (now Arm & Hammer) American Motors Ramblers & Nash, ESSO gas, TV stations signing off the air around midnight after playing the National Anthem.

I'll bet there's many here who remember every single TV show listed:


64,000 Question
77 Sunset Strip
Adam 12
Addams Family
Adventures of Robin Hood
Adventures of Superman
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
American Bandstand
Andy Griffith Show
Art Linkletter
Arthur Godfrey and Friends
Avengers
Batman
Beat the Clock
Ben Casey
Burns and Allen
Captain Kangaroo
Car 54 Where Are You?
Checkmate
Combat
Danny Thomas Show
Dark Shadows
Dennis the Menace
Dobie Gillis
Donna Reed
Dr. Kildare
Dragnet
Ed Sullivan Show
Tron Knows Best
F.B.I.
Flintstones
Flicka
Fugitive
Gay SuperHeros
Get Smart
Gidget
Gilligan's Island
Gomer Pyle
Green Hornet
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaiian Eye
Highway Patrol
Honeymooners
Howdy Doody
I Love Lucy
Invaders
Ironside
I Spy
It Takes a Thief
I've Got a Secret
Jack Benny Show
Jackie Gleason Show
Irwin Richardt Show
Jetsons
Lassie
Lawrence Welk Show
Leave It To Beaver
Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Mickey Mouse Club
Milton Berle
Mr. Ed
Ozzie and Harriet
Perry Mason
Peyton Place
Price is Right
Drag Queen for a Day
Red Skelton Show
Robin Hood
Route 66
Sky King
Superman
Surfside 6
Art Linkletter
Tom Terrific
Topper
To Tell The Truth
This is Your Life
Tron Goes to Hollywood
What's My Rig
Adventures of Jim Bowie
Bat Masterson
Blown Away Bob Show
Bonanza
Branded
Broken Arrow
Bronco
Casey Jones
Cisco Kid
Kid From Brooklyn
Cheyenne
Davy Crockett
Fury
Gunsmoke
Have Gun Will Travel
Laramie
Lawman
Wyatt Burp
Lone Ranger
Maverick
Rawhide
Rebel
Rifleman
Rin Tin Tin
Roy Rogers
Sky King
Sugarfoot
Tales of Wells Fargo
Tom Vu's Real Estate Seminar
Wagon Train
Wanted:Dead or Alive
Zorro

Mine are all from the 60's. I am a Sputnik.

Orange Crush and Bubble Up

Cherry Phosphates

Getting Cut on Pop Tops

Model glue

Space Blanket, Jiffy Pop

Being given a shotguns and a rifles at 15 and told to go out with your buddies and do something in the woods and come back at supper time

Balsa Airplanes

Watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan

WU2D Mike

Walking 10 miles to school in snow 5 feet deep, uphill - both ways!

LOL!! How about

My Favorite Martian
Live from Liberty Corner
WA3PUN Singing Dog on the Tonight Show
The Lawrence Welk Show (hey that one is still on)
Old Buzzards on Parade
Heavy Metal Garage
W1GAC Comedy Hour

Yep, one of my favorites too!

His best shows are complaining about reckless young blonde girls driving red cars running him off the road.   ;D

T

After getting home from school we would watch Paul Revere and the Raiders / The Turtles
The Monkees and Lost in Space

By the time we hit the 70's, I was watching Don Kirchner's Rock Concert

He had a hard time getting acts but if in a jam he always could get Foghat or Redbone!

Mike WU2D

Don't forget the Sunday shows like Ted Mack's Amatuer Hour, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, ("I'll stay in the jeep while Jim wrangles with the deadly African Momba."), Mr. Ed, Its About Time, Its About Space, Rat Patrol.

6-volt automotive electrical  systems

service station attendants giving your car a quart of oil from glass bottles

Black Diamond guitar strings

Mauser rifles at Sears for 20$

beer cans without pop tops

leaded gasoline

wire antennas on the family AM radio

TV sets with round picture tubes

shooting at the rifle range at my school

Dad's ARC-5 station

toy soldiers made of lead

Horne and Hardart (the automat)

railroad car diners

playing "army" with rocks and BB guns

tree houses

falling out of tree houses

baseball cards

Radio Flyer sleds

milk in glass bottles

the milkman

the morning prayer in (public) school

the America we grew up in

Okay...now I'm reminiscing [my apologies if there is some overlap]:


16-2/3-RPM records

3- and 5-speed bicycles

33-1/3-RPM records

45-RPM records

8-Track tape

A "bad air day" was when someone ate beans or Mexican food the night before

A "bad fit" referred to clothing or shoes

Adjusting a radio, TV, etc. meant turning a knob -- not pushing a button

Aluminum Christmas trees [couldn't use light-strings, for safety -- had to use a small flood-lamp with color-wheel]

AM Broadcast radio that was more music than pi**-and-moan, I mean, talk

AM car radios with one speaker [luxury cars had two!]

AMC Gremlin [my sister had one in 1979, she should've never sold it]

American Flyer trains

An "uncomfortable workplace" was either too hot or too cold

Archer Space Patrol walkie-talkies [27 MHz]

A used anything still had years of trouble-free life remaining, because people took better care of things then

Automakers who "won [races] on Sunday, sold [cars] on Monday"

"Bowling For Dollars" [locally-produced TV program]

"Bozo's Circus" [with Larry Harmon's Bozo The Clown, licensed and performed in many metropolitan TV markets, including Dallas]

"Captain Kangaroo" [childrens' TV program]

CB radios, when everyone had and used them -- at home and in the car

"CD" meant Civil Defense, not a type of savings account or music / data storage medium

Chevrolet Chevy II / Nova [the real one, not the Toyota-built version of the mid-1980s]

Chevrolet Corvette [when it was a sports car, not a yuppie-status-symbol]

Chevrolet Luv pickup [built by Isuzu]

Chevrolet Vega

Children were never left in the car alone, especially in the summer

Children's games / toys that didn't need batteries

"Coke" was Coca-Cola

Computers were inconceivable as automotive controls

Computers were inconceivable as household items

"Cool McCool" [cartoon, a parody of James Bond / Derek Flint / Maxwell Smart, et. al.]

"Crack" was something in the sidewalk, on the wall, or on an egg

Disney's "Wonderful World Of Color" [when color TV was still a "new" thing]

Disputes were settled with discussion, or physical action if necessary -- not in court

Druggists actually mixed preparations, not merely dispensed them

Duct tape was used only for ducts and other AC / heat needs

"Easy-Bake" oven [girls' cooking toy]

Elvis Presley's death

Evel Kneivel's death-defying motorcycle jumps [and crashes]

Five-and-dime stores [Mott's and M.E. Moses here in Dallas]

Ford Courier pickup [built by Mazda]

Ford Escort [before it went "upscale"]

Ford Falcon

Ford Fiesta [which looked like a re-badged Fiat Strada, IMHO]

Ford Granada

Ford Maverick

Ford Pinto [seems ever so often, Ford would come out with a new "people's car"]

Ford Thunderbird [the real one, not the yuppie-status-symbol]

Full-service gas stations -- where the attendant would fill your tank, check oil, wipers, tires, etc. and clean windows

Gasoline trucks had chains dragging the pavement to bleed off static electricity [to prevent explosions]

Glass pop bottles with 5-cent deposits [picked up from around the neighborhood and returned to buy batteries for pocket radios, see below]

Going to the "mall" was a not-too-commonplace experience

Groceries were bagged in paper sacks

Having an "alternative lifestyle" meant that you lived in a mobile home [which was called without shame, a "trailer"]

"Johnson" was a US president or a radio -- not a male body part

Kids were taught in school -- not said to be "hyperactive" and medicated into a stupor to keep them quiet

Kids would be home by a certain time

Kids would go outdoors and find something creative and fun to do -- and not get arrested, in trouble, injured, kidnapped, or killed

Laser- and CED videodiscs [they were 12 inches in diameter!!]

Leaded gasoline -- in "Regular" and "Ethyl"

Lionel trains

Locally-televised professional wrestling that didn't look fake [Dallas area: Fritz Von Erich and sons]

Low-to-mid-market stereo equipment that was halfway-decently built

"Made In Japan" -- and better than today's other Asian offerings

Mechanical clocks -- analog and digital

Mini-bikes [with the infamous Briggs & Stratton 3-1/2 HP engine, fast enough]

"Mister Peppermint" [childrens' TV program; especially at the beginning -- he was based out of Dallas]

Mobile telephones that looked like a telephone ["common carrier" -- and you could legally listen to them on a VHF scanner!]

Movie special-effects were photographic, not computerized

Open-reel tape recorders

Pagers were called "beepers" and actually beeped [and the only people with them were medical and legal professionals…and drug dealers]

Parents could spank their misbehaving children without fear of arrest or legal action

Parents didn't worry about violence in cartoons [because the average child didn't like falling from a chair or bike -- never mind a 300-foot cliff]

Passing airplanes would cause your TV picture to flutter or have "ghosts"

Pocket AM radios [if your parents were affluent, it was AM/FM]

"Ports" were for ships and airplanes, not computer connections

President Johnson's funeral

President Nixon's resignation

Putting aluminum foil on the ends of "rabbit-ear" TV antennas, to improve reception

Radio / TV shops

Record-changers were more prevalent than "turntables"

"Ripcord" [both the TV program and the school prank -- untying someone's tennis shoes]

Rotary-dial telephones

S&H Green Stamps [given with purchases at the supermarket; collected and redeemed for merchandise]

Sapphire styli [needles] that came with your record player -- which you upgraded to diamond when the original was worn out

"Sea Hunt" [TV program]

Sears & Roebuck's annual catalog [the infamous "Wish Book"]

Slot-cars [the real Aurora Model Motoring / AFX -- not the cheaper Tyco]

Spam was something you ate

Spraying ether or pouring a bit of gasoline down a carburetor to start a stubborn engine

The American hostages held in Iran for 444 days [one was a Marine from where I live]

The Hemi [the Chrysler engine, not the yuppie-status-symbol]

The only controls on a car's steering column were the turn-signal and gearshift

Tubes [and tester!] at the Eckerd / Sun Rexall / Skillern's drugstores, and Radio Shack

Tube-type radios and televisions -- and one could get them back to working just by replacing tubes

Turner "+2," "+3," "Road King 70," and "Super Sidekick" microphones

TV-channel indicators on the channel selector, not the screen

TV stations came on-air at 5 or 6 AM, and went off-air at midnight, with the National Anthem

"Whirlybirds" [TV program]


* * * * * * * * * *

And I'll put a call out to Wavebourn:  Tolly, let's hear of your memories, growing up. ;D

Then there were the 'DX' gas stations.  I had an uncle who worked at one when he was a teen, and he gave me the shirt/uniform he wore there - pinstriped, name embroidered on the pocket, and the big 'DX' patch on the chest.  I occasionally wear that shirt during corn-test weekends......

              Fizzies....Yes, yes yes - very sick taste

    --   as previously stated about soda/pop dispensers  all one needed was a glass and a "can" opener.... free soda

Did we forget the BEATNIKS????
Fred

that was covered in Doby Gillis??

Do you guys remember the above ground nuke tests.
I remember my Mother telling us to not eat white or yellow snow when that was going on.

Don't you remember
The fizz in a pepper
Peanuts in a bottle
At ten, two and four
A fried bologna sandwich
With mayo and tomato
Sittin' round the table
Don't happen much anymore

We've gotten too complicated
It's all way over-rated
I like the old and out-dated
Way of life

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

I love my records
Black, shiny vinyl
Clicks and pops
And white noise
Man they sounded fine
I had my favorite stations
The ones that played them all
Country, soul and rock-and-roll
What happened to those times?

I'm readin' Street Slang For Dummies
Cause they put pop in my country
I want more for my money
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

Give me a flat top for strumming
I want the whole world a humming
Who just keep it coming
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

huz,
I thought my Mother invented fried bologna...you ate it too
Man that was good with mustard and relish after it sat on the shelf all morning in school before lunch with the bread all moist. You could crush it and fit 1/2 a sandwich in your mouth at a time.
I ate it so much that I don't care for it today.

then there was the fluffer nutter..........
my mother was a good cook so school food was pretty nasty.

The all time show stopper I threaten my kids with LIVER AND ONIONS yuck
every now and then my mother would get a wild hair and make it

top that one tom vu with gay super heros

Wasn't it the Geritol commercial that coined the phrase: "My wife, I think I'll keep her"?

Remember ads in the newspaper for a "Gal Friday"?

When "Elevator man" was a job title as was "computer". Men were elevator operators and women were computers. "Pullman car Porters" were always men!

When all of the waiters, waitresses, and domestic help in the big Atlantic City,NJ hotels were "mullatos".

Speaking of Atlantic City,NJ, how about the diving horse at the "Steel Pier"? The General Motors "Autorama" that previewed all of the new models?

That was back in the good old days when air was clean and sex was dirty...............

My how things have changed!

Joe Cro N3IBX

Mike(y) - You have a good memory! To my recollection, that show only lasted the 1964-1965 season. It was hillarious!

Whilst we're on the subject of TV shows, how about "My mother the Car"?

My mother made it straight up and we hated it.
She died about 30 years ago and I have not had it since.
piss flavored rubber sure trashed a good onion.

Sure do !
 Root Beer Fizzies straight on the tongue !!!
 
http://www.fizzies.com/

Ja wohl, Phil.  Das schmeckt sehr gut!! (If it's prepared properly Frank--it should not taste like piss flavored rubber--it should be tender and juicy.)  And Phil, my mother used to go into Krug's Butcher Shop in Buffalo and ask for two calves hearts.  Inevitably, the old German butcher would hold two hearts up in the air and break out in song:  Zwei Herzen in dreiviertel Takt.......

vH

deer heart sliced and cooked with bacon (fat) .... A OK...  da Ichi

And:

Those little converters so your car's AM radio could get FM.
Lear FOUR-track tapes.
Draft cards
Conelrad
Drug store tube testers.
Those pneumatic tubes department stores used to ship orders around to different departments.
Lunch counters in drug stores
Buying opium-laced cough syrup without a prescription.
Legally being able to drink a cold beer while driving, so long as you weren't intoxicated. (CO, TX, WY, maybe elsewhere).
The Fuller Brush Man and Avon Calling.
Michael Jackson when he was a cute kid.
Spiro Agnew.
Large outdoor telephone bells that could wake the dead.
Party lines.
Police cars with one big rotating red light on the roof and a mechanical siren.
Railroad employees that waved at you from the caboose.
Slot cars.
UHF TV converters.
Your first ride on an interstate highway.
Housewives hanging laundry outside to dry.
Oil can spouts.
Dry cells without a steel sleeve that leaked as soon as they wore out.
Elevator operators.
Matches with the striking surface on the front side that you could light with one hand.
Motors rated,   110 VAC 25-60 CPS / 110 V. DC. " (When did 25 Hz power go away?
Who used it last?)

fold the match back over and you can still strike it                 "three pack klc"

Or maybe chitterlings? (pronounced "chitlens") Or menudo?  And blood sausage?

If not, there's always the option of a little fried roadkill.

Don, I had chitlins not long ago at a Chicago soul food restaurant. And cornbread, beans and greens braised in bacon or ham grease. Sounds gross but all very tasty.
A lot of folks around here eat menudo, it's supposed to be a cure for a hangover. I've been too cowardly to try it.

Rocky Mountain Oysters?

Colt 45
Night Train Express
Old English "800"
"Sneaky Pete"

What's the word? - Thunderbird. What's the price? - Fifty twice!

Does anyone remember the cigarette machines that dispensed 23 cent butts? There was two pennies in the clear package wrapper as change. They were a non-filter type like Luckies or something.

How about the 25 cent quart of milk machines?

How about the pack of smokes rolled up in your undershirt sleeve?  (And the guys who stood with their hands under their biceps to make them look bigger?)

Or wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket with a rabbit foots hanging down to school?

Babe Ruths were 5 cents each. Now those 7-11 robbers want $1.25 sometimes. I feel like kicking em in the gawd damed BA's.... ;D

T

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Kind of taste like liver...

Smells like fish? :P

Bugle
Larado


Are you man enough to try it?
Smokes sweat, cant bite...
Should a gentleman offer a lady the cigar?

Tempo Teddy, tempo...

ROTFLMAO!
Thanks, I needed that.

..

Red Rose Tea commercial beats the trunk monkey anyday....

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Bill, the first time, (and only time for that matter) I had 'Rocky Mountain Oysters' was when I attended a 'Gonutz Party' at the State Armory in Greenley. It was all you could eat for $3.50 and they weren't too bad, (of course plenty of Coors made it easier). The locals said I did alright for an 'East Coast Flatlander' ;D

Motors rated,   110 VAC 25-60 CPS / 110 V. DC. " (When did 25 Hz power go away?
Who used it last?)

25 hz is still around.  The hydro plant in Keokuk IA still produces it, and sends it all the way down to St. Louis to a electroplater who doesn't want to spring for new 60 hz iron.

I'd sure like to kow more about that! That would be a good magazine article...
But you'd think that 25 Hz iron would work on 60 Hz Ok, but not the other way around.
Maybe the hydro is still doing 25 HZ because they don't or can't change the old-timey generators. There's an old, old hydro near here that's still using turbines and generators made 100 years ago. Some of the first AC that Westinghouse made. The plant op told me that if you kept the oil cups full on the bearings, that stuff would run forever. Not a lot of capacity, iirc only 100 KW, but it's absolutely free power so they keep the place running.

The only other place I ever heard of 25 Hz power being used was when I was a kid in Chicago, someone mentioned that transportation there had used 25 Hz power until the 1960s. I don't remember if it was the old electric street cars and busses or the L.

Actually, if chetterlings are cooked properly, they taste pretty good.  But they contain lotsa fat - about like dipping pure lard outta the can with a spoon. 

Cornbread and beans are yummy. But the cornbread has to be just white cornmeal, with a little dab of salt, soda and baking powder, and buttermilk.  That stuff with yeggs and wheat flour added isn't real cornbread.

I just today cooked up a batch of collard greens I picked right from my veg garden.  I used diced pieces of ham stripped from a leftover bone, instead of bacon or grease.  Just let them cook till tender.  Can't get much closer to heaven without being there.  I like turnip greens about as well, too.

Ethiopian food (some people might think that term is an oxymoron, but the food is out-of-this-world delicious), spiced with berbere, is an excellent cure for a hangover.  A few years ago I discovered an Ethiopian restaurant on the main drag that goes through the middle of Denver.  Don't remember the name of the street, but the restaurant was on the righthand side of the street as you are heading west, right in the middle of the downtown commercial section.  Wonder if it's still there.  Just tell them to spice up the stew so that it is even hotter than the way they eat it back home in Ethiopia.  My favourite is called wat, a beef or goat stew spiced with berebere (a special blend of hot peppers).  There is also doro wat, which is a chicken stew  cooked with the same spices.  With it comes njera, a type of sourdough which is the staple food of Ethiopia; it looks like a sponge, about the size of a large pizza, and about a quarter-inch thick, somewhat like a pancake.

Don said:
When I was in the Navy, it was customary to celebrate something every month and have a special meal on the mess decks as a tribute. For example, Latino month, Philipino month, well you get the picture. In Feb, we celebrated 'Black History Month' by having fried chicken, black-eyed peas, collard greens, chetterlings, and watermelon. We had one Afro-American in my shop that couldn't believe they did this! But it took about a month to get rid of the smell of pig shit off the mess decks. ;)

Just a couple things..

FIZZIES!!!  Made a darn fine drink on the trail.  Some ice cold spring water and a fizzie...(almost) like carring a heavy can of soda up the mountain.

And...ignition switches on the dashboard?

Fuggedaboutit....

How about a START button separate from the ignition switch...or....even better...

the starter was a plunger in the floor, e.g., your foot powered the solenoid.

Somebody else mentioned coal furnaces and bins...

But...when AM broadcasting was music...how about when the DJ put on a cohesive show, with opening and closing themes, and some continuity throughout?  I last heard that in '63.

Forgot a major 50's thing.

Polio

Dr. Jonas Salk is a saint.

Menudo is a Mexican tripe stew.

Remember?

Bath-tub Mercuries (49-51)
'57 Chevies
Police Cars that were station wagons and also doubled as ambulances.
15 cent (kids price) matinee movies
5 cent comic books and candy bars
ball point pens that were the newest thing and cost 2 bucks each (lot of money in the 50's)
Nash cars with fold-down seats (best xxxxing cars on the road)
Hudsons
Kaisers and Frasiers
car club license plates dangling from the back bumper
exhaust cut-outs with removable plates
"baby moons"
reverb units on AM radio rear speakers
life without political correctness (and nobody cared)
discipline and decorum in the public schools (everybody cared)

73,  Jack, W9GT

How about mercury *batteries*..?
They were fantastic.

..

Whoa....that could start a whole new wave of recollections about life and freedom before all of the "environmentalist over-reactions" to anything that could possibly pollute or harm us if we failed to use common sense.

Such as:  remember PCBs?. wrinkle paint(the good old kind), mercury thermometers, anything with mercury in it including batteries and 866s, domestic oil production and excess refining capability,  etc, etc

73,  Jack, W9GT

This may have been late fifties, definitely early sixties. I can remember the shortwave freq. filler tune by two trumphets (or French horns) harmonizing.  Heard it over and over. Memorized the notes. Hmmm, can't remember the station. From the Soviet bloc, pretty sure. Only two stanzas, both ending with lower noted 'echo.' Checkz or East German?